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Thanks :) Yes, inventing new algos is the fun part (debugging, not so much...). With mosaics, optimizing the placement of tesserae is a more complex problem than I had first envisaged, but I'm having a blast testing different strategies.
Hi David! First off, I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all your hard work on FotoSketcher v4.20 is amazing! I absolutely love your algorithmic rendering approach the way the brushes and textures calculate the strokes dynamically creates such a beautiful, authentic look... I had a quick idea the other day and wanted to throw it out there Have you ever thought about adding support for Photoshop .abr brush files? Your built-in effects are already great, but letting users import standard .abr files would be a total game changer. It would give everyone endless creative freedom to use their favorite custom watercolor, oil, or charcoal brush shapes right inside your rendering engine. But if parsing .abr files is too much of a headache, even just supporting custom .png images with transparency as brush tips would be an amazing alternative! I do wish it wouldn't cause you too much trouble when writing the code later though. As a fellow developer, I know integrating a feature like that means a lot of extra work (and yes... my least favorite part about software development is definitely debugging!) Since custom brushes are so popular for digital art, I think hobbyists would absolutely love it if you ever decided to tackle either option. Thanks again for keeping FotoSketcher free, accessible, and awesome for everyone!;)
Hi, Thank you very much for your comment. I'm glad that you like FotoSketcher :) I have in fact been looking at supporting .abr files, but there are various different abr formats and loading the brushes is not straightforward. I might get back to it someday. In the meantime, the good news is that FotoSketcher already supports loading transparent .png images as brushstrokes (or even .zip files with multiple .png images inside). This is exactly what the "Load custom brushes" button does (for effects that do support this feature). BTW, I've updated the manual for version 4.20, you can find it on the help page (https://fotosketcher.com/fotosketcher-help/). I only briefly mention custom brushes, so I'll need to expand that section (7.4).
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Your sample looks really promising!
Thanks :)
Good to see you are exploring more filters. Great work, keep it up!
Thanks :) Yes, inventing new algos is the fun part (debugging, not so much...). With mosaics, optimizing the placement of tesserae is a more complex problem than I had first envisaged, but I'm having a blast testing different strategies.
Hi David!
First off, I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all your hard work on FotoSketcher
v4.20 is amazing! I absolutely love your algorithmic rendering approach the way the brushes and textures calculate the strokes dynamically creates such a beautiful, authentic look...
I had a quick idea the other day and wanted to throw it out there
Have you ever thought about adding support for Photoshop .abr brush files?
Your built-in effects are already great, but letting users import standard .abr files would be a total game changer. It would give everyone endless creative freedom to use their favorite custom watercolor, oil, or charcoal brush shapes right inside your rendering engine.
But if parsing .abr files is too much of a headache, even just supporting custom .png images with transparency as brush tips would be an amazing alternative!
I do wish it wouldn't cause you too much trouble when writing the code later though. As a fellow developer, I know integrating a feature like that means a lot of extra work (and yes... my least favorite part about software development is definitely debugging!)
Since custom brushes are so popular for digital art, I think hobbyists would absolutely love it if you ever decided to tackle either option.
Thanks again for keeping FotoSketcher free, accessible, and awesome for everyone!;)
Hi,
Thank you very much for your comment. I'm glad that you like FotoSketcher :)
I have in fact been looking at supporting .abr files, but there are various different abr formats and loading the brushes is not straightforward. I might get back to it someday. In the meantime, the good news is that FotoSketcher already supports loading transparent .png images as brushstrokes (or even .zip files with multiple .png images inside). This is exactly what the "Load custom brushes" button does (for effects that do support this feature).
BTW, I've updated the manual for version 4.20, you can find it on the help page (https://fotosketcher.com/fotosketcher-help/). I only briefly mention custom brushes, so I'll need to expand that section (7.4).
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